Comments on: hg qimport my-bugzilla-patch redux

By: Rob Arnold

Rob Arnold — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:48:55 +0000

Mercurial’s behavior towards the % in config files changed – in newer versions you no longer need to escape % so I suspect this is the problem you’re having.

By: Josh Matthews

Josh Matthews — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:19:57 +0000

When using this now, I get patches showing up as bug-%(bugnum)s in my queue. Any thoughts?

By: Zack

Zack — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:50:49 +0000

I hit three more problems:

– The advice to double % signs in patch_format is incorrect for Mercurial 1.3.1.

– ui.prompt() doesn’t have a pat= keyword argument in Mercurial 1.3.1. I don’t know what replaced it, if anything.

– Most seriously, if you import multiple patches, they are added to the series file in reverse order.

By: Boris

Boris — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:30:55 +0000

So I tried using -p to edit the commit message, and the patch still got imported with the original commit message (the one that was in the diff to start with). Feature or bug?

By: Mark Banner

Mark Banner — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:16:20 +0000

Thanks Rob, works like a dream now

By: Rob Arnold

Rob Arnold — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:34:44 +0000

I’ve now updated the article to address the issue with formatting strings; the % characters need to be escaped because the configuration parser tries to do its own substitutions.

Also, the issue with multiple patch selection is fixed. I wish Python had stricter variable scoping.

By: Mark Banner

Mark Banner — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:47:56 +0000

Is it me or is importing with multiple patches on a bug not working? Bug 492116 currently has two patches available and whichever I choose I get the second patch

By: Mark Banner

Mark Banner — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:57:50 +0000

I also couldn’t get overriding the format in .hgrc to work. Using your suggestion for patch_format:

[qimportbz]
patch_format = bug-%(bugnum)s

gave me:

abort: Error in configuration section [qimportbz] parameter ‘patch_format’:
Bad value substitution:
section: [qimportbz]
option : patch_format
key : bugnum
rawval :

Not sure why.

By: Mark Banner

Mark Banner — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:49:29 +0000

For all those macports users out there, if you get a message such as:

Fetching http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?ctype=xml&id=111111…abort: error: unknown url type: https

then try:

sudo port install py25-socket-ssl

and that should fix it.